You're 38??? I thought you were 28 maximum. You have such a fresh, youthful spirit! Thanks for making videos. They are so calming and educational!

I was so pleasantly surprised to discover that you saw my video and mentioned my channel. Thank you very much for that. ☺️ It is definitely the highlight of my day…and will be recorded in my five year Midori as such.

Continue to be impressed by your openness and honesty. (oh, the humanity) It's restful and like a safe harbor in a world of pretense and falsity. Love your hand-stitching. I'm a leatherworker hobbyist, and you did a great job. Don't mess with scissors to trim the edges; they're fine. There are "burnishing tools" that you can buy at online retailers (e.g., Tandy), but you can get by with using household items. The "fluff" along the edge is the "flesh grain/fiber" of the hide, and it will lay down flat and disappear if you wet the edge with water and rub it briskly with a glossy piece of plastic. The heat/friction will cause the loose fibers of the leather to sort of melt together with the natural fats and amino acids, making the edge have a slightly glossy appearance. You can stain the edge first with any shade of furniture-repair marker, or just a dark-colored Sharpie, then rub a little bees wax all along the edge (while the ink/stain is still a little damp), and then burnish with your slick tool.The friction rubbing in leatherwork is called "boning" from the days when leatherworkers, native people's would just grab a piece of smooth bone to manipulate damp hide fibers and make them obey. You can take old wooden thimbles, and use a rattail file to grove/flute their wooden sides with "U"-shaped profiles to match the thickness of your leather edges, then wax the edges and rub them with the reciprocal flute of the thimble, and you'll produce a super neat, mat-finished, rounded edge along the journal that looks fantastic and won't wear, stain, or tatter with use.

You should fill your missed days with a nice quote or from a book you’re reading 😊

Glad I'm not the only one who switches journals in the middle of using it! ☺️

Thank you. Your calm voice always improves my day. And the notetaking geekiness resonates with me and reminds me of who I really am and how I was as a child and what I am always trying to get back to. For me it means simply being. I have a son who is like me and we just sit in total silence and write and draw while the rest of the family zooms about.

I‘ll be turning 58 in May, it’s crazy! Thanks for the video! I do that too, stockpiling! I always throw a few items in my cart because „why not“ and „I‘m saving shipping“ 😂!

Thank you for supporting Yoseka! I love them so much

Gorgeous! Midori notebooks are my fav and I have a stash as well ❤. Thx for the vid 🤗

Thank you for sharing your stationary tidbits! I especially love the fact that you still care about the Brass Sport even though the Bronze Sport has taken place as top dog. 😊 I'm sure you know, but it never hurts to use something so similar since they are actually different. They each have their own history now. 😁 I have a request for another video if you haven't already posted it... have you done any videos on air travel with your stationary essentials? I know you've done plenty with your backpacking/hiking, but I didn't know if you did much in terms of flights.

Great to hear that I am not the only person trying to find a notebook or journal to work. Love your honesty.

Happy birthday month, Alicia!

Oh that Midori goat leather cover. I have one on my A5 Midori that I use for work, but I've been journaling in the B5 slim for a long time and it is my very favourite. Eventually I hope to get the leather cover for it, SO I am drooling over the patina of your goat leather cover. So gorgeous!

What fun! Over the decades, I find that planners for a detailed life don't make much sense for me. Most of my work time is based on the serendipitous. But, journals! I too am delighted with the Midori MD A5 unlined. I have mine in a Galen Leather cover (love it). Your ideas for how to archive the filled notebooks intrigue me. Thanks!

your videos always inspire me to write more

Ah..this is nice. And looks so convenient

I enjoyed this so much! I love seeing how you set up your journals. I think you did an amazing job with trimming down that cover. I love the look of your own stitches. Now, it is truly yours and wholly unique. Good Show! And you showed your Kaweco Bronze! I am getting so worn down. I am trying to let this one pass. I love how it glows! Your stationary is wonderful too. -I just picked up a highlighter pencil from Jet Pens. It high highlights and never gets dark from ink because it is a pencil. It's pretty neat. Thank you for a wonderful video as always!

I actually really like the DIY resizing you did! Not only does it look more personalized, but it also looks well-loved. New subscriber here - looking forward to more videos! :)

I bought a wide Chic Sparrow traveler's notebook cover and it was massive, so I also trimmed it! It was impulsive and it looks messy but I also love that I made it mine. I've been enjoying your videos for a while now - they feel safe - and now I know that we're so close in age (I am 1 year younger), it makes sense; we're at a similar stage of life. Thanks for being you!

You could always use the five year you abandoned as an ink log or for ink play as the paper is tomoe river. I like one of the other suggestions to use it for quotes. Nice to see the bronze sport.

I also have a stash of Midori notebooks and the paper covers (j'adore ça !) but in A6 size. I use the covers for my archived Hobonichi planners as well as my 5-year journals, which are MacGyvered Stalogy 365 Editors Series notebooks. There were details about both the design of the Midori 5-year and the Hobonichi 5-year that simply didn't appeal. How you've set up your Midori notebooks to also work as a planner is a good example too of how sometimes you just need to get creative with the basic forms. Thanks for sharing! ❤

I have the Midori as well. I am enjoying making short notes for each day.

I often had 3 daytimers on the go in the past. Now I use a filofax for Rotary and a Hobo Weeks and its plenty of room. You should really transpose the annual calendar to the 5 year when you want to just harvest the memorable events, notes and reminders....then you can toss the little weeks or your annual calendar planners with all the scribbles and hectic notes most people cram in them. Eventually having a nicely printed/cursive collection of key moments over 5 yrs.

Now I don't feel so bad for stopping using daily journals! It happens! And it's interesting which ones and which ones you keep using! :)

I've been using the Midori 5 year since 2021 and the first year felt a bit weird (it took me awhile to figure out what I was going to write about) but it's gotten really interesting now that I'm in year three! I can see me continuing with it for many years. (I also really like the Midori paper.) I love seeing your goat skin cover age. There's such a big difference already. (That pen pouch is a cutie too.)

I need a new ballpoint pen, for "non fountain pen" situations, and seeing these uni multi pens always in your pen case, kind of convinced me ... and before I finished watching, I ordered the Uni Jetstream 4 & 1 Metal, in Dark green; and the uni jetstream sx3-507 3 color in Black (= Thanks for the video.

I tried the A6 Hobonichi as a journal, agree too small, and I am not much of a journaler anyway, so I just cut the pages out and tuck them into my A5 Midori work notebook and use them for when I need to write notes for my coworkers….or you could always use it as an ink journal….and oooh you got the bunny Weeks! That one was always sold out, but I don’t use the Weeks anymore anyway. I like Midori MD when I’m in the mood for a toothier paper, and I use the pads for letters, though I just discovered Iroful paper (same company that makes the new TR) Iroful is kind of like if TR and Midori got together and had a baby - love it!!

Happy birthday when it comes! I have a grandson and a son with May birthdays, and my youngest daughter turns 39 on May 1st! Yay May!❤

Suggestion....you could use the Hobonichi 5 year for videos when you ink swatch. Love the new blue flower 5 year. It's pretty!

I started my Midori 5 year journal (I have the colorfully embroidered one instead of the blue; it was very hard to choose which one I wanted) on January 1, 2022. I did play a little "catch up" when I skipped a few days but I am happy to say that I am up to date and doing better at writing every day or two so there are no empty spaces so far. If that happens and I end up with empty days...the world will not end. Or...I will do as @pocketfullofponder (who commented below) suggests...and use a quote to fill the empty day. I was never attracted to the Hobonichi 5 year. I don't like the grid paper in it and I also didn't care for that entire empty page on the right. I don't think it's anymore "cramped" than the Midori for daily entries though. Actually, you may find the Midori five year in the blue even MORE cramped than the Hobonichi so far as how much your can write. It has lines for each day and there are only five of them. It seems the Hobonichi might have more "lines" for each day?

I feel your 5 Year Journal struggle. I always had a hard time because I keep a daily journal, so I felt like I was just doing double work by making an entry in both. And, maybe this is just me and my boring life, but after the 2 year mark it actually got really depressing to see stuff like “oh, on April 15th for the last three years, I did nothing.” Too much pressure.

TFS. Glad to see that I'm not the only one w/planner & journal plans haven't completely worked out so far. 💙 that blue journal!! Where's it on sale at? Oh & Yoseka rocks. Love them.

Thank you for sharing, I always love your videos. What is the tan leather cover you had your Midori notebook in?

Hi Alicia, could you share what’s the name of the light brown(yellowish?) journal cover next to the sojourner?

Omg I think I made it 3 days into my hobonichi 5 year that started in 2020 💀 Really sucks too because, what a year lol My daughter was born in 2020 and my son would have made it into the 5 year as well. I’ve learned that it’s *smaller* goals for me 🤷🏽‍♂️ (I had the same issues with it as you) Edit: crazy, I also jumped from a hobonichi weeks into using my a5 Midori as a planner Edit again: sorry to blow you up but what is that cover paper you used for the midori?

Thanks for this video. Great stuff. Two questions: What is the cover you removed from your B6 Slim to change over to the Sojourner? What is the source of your red pen pouch? Please and thank you. 😊

Hello! Nice collection of notebooks!) How is your W123?))) I just saw him today) I love these young timers !!!😍❤ I also watched how you serviced your bike!) You did it very cleverly )👍 You have a wonderful collection of typewriters! Tell me, what year exactly is your Rheinmetall typewriter? Maybe it has a stamp with the release date on it... I want to buy a compact sewing machine Singer of the early 20th century)

I did that, where I used my journal also as a planner...it was very annoying because I could not find things I wanted to refer back to between all the journal entries etc. I now have 3 different books, please help LOL

I have also realized I love the midori paper… not sure if the year diaries are the same paper as md notebooks!?

Thank you for your video and your honesty. How does the bronze sport patina?

Love the pen pouch! Where is it from?

Quick question, your 5 Year Hobonichi, is that the A6 or A5 sized one? I have been considering one to start next year, but if is as small as it looks there is no way it would be beneficial to me. Thanks!

Pedantic admiring fan - no apostrophe in “lot’s” (unless you’re talking about, say, Lot’s Wife).

Frankly the bronze kicks the brass's butt.

Do you keep your journals? I tend to let them go unless there was some pivotal moment captured. Just curious.

If you ever decide to let the Sojourner cover go, let me know, I really like how it looks 😅

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